I gave up on hangers and just put up coat hooks in our laundry room. But do coats make it on said hooks, oh no, they're all draped over dining room chairs. Sigh. And we have a one year old. Those coats are ours!

Hi Dawn,I have 3 kids and have given up on trying to get them to hang their coats up.I have a big basket by the door for their coats now and they can't even manage that! lolBy the way,your little boy has the cutest laugh!

We installed a coat rack next to the door - we even hung it at the kids' height....Yep, they still throw their coats on the floor everyday. I will be sure to show them this informational video today after school :)

LOL.......now let's hear back on how long this lesson lasts.I have tried and tried here with my son, daughter-in-law and the 3 grandkids. I swear it goes in one ear and out the other !(Note: the grandkids do better than the adults !)

Mine hang up their coats. They cannot, however, put their shoes on the shoe rack. They will place them on the rug in FRONT of the shoe rack. I started collecting any shoes found on the rug and charging $1 to their owner for their return.

get one of these and your shorter kids will be able to reach the lower bar to hang their coats - http://www.target.com/Double-Hang-Closet-Organizer-Chrome/dp/B000PHDO06/sr=1-1/qid=1257950403/ref=sr_1_1/175-5254748-4413366?ie=UTF8&search-alias=tgt-index&frombrowse=0&index=target&rh=k%3Acloset&page=1

What kind of monster mom are you? You expect them to do all that work, OPEN a door, get a hanger and hang up coats when they can just toss them on the floor?? I have hooks on the wall by the door, and still we have coats on the floor. Good luck and thanks for the laugh!

my little tip for kids that are too short. Buy the little Command Hooks and hang them behind the living room door. You can hang then right at their height, so no excuses. AND...they come off clean because of the handy little tab thingy. Your welcome Clay :)

Oh my goodness!!!!! That's too funny! I am in love with Clay's laugh! That would brighten even the darkest heart of stone. Thanks for putting a smile on my face. I am still LOL'ing.

And I must agree with the previous poster who called you a monster. What kind of cruel person are you anyway? That is clearly much too difficult of a task for those little darlings. All that coat hanging will cut into their eye rolling and heavy sighing time...

Well, I thought I'd have an original comment, but nevermind. Just another person to say that we have hooks. Much easier than hangers. Not that it makes any difference to the coats on the floor--they're still there. But at least I don't have empty hangers flying around, too. One sure-fire way to get one of my children to hang up her coat, though, is to hang somebody ELSE'S coat on her hook. Voilá--her coat is on the hook, hung up by her very own self. And the someone-else's coat is on the floor. But if her hook is empty, her coat goes on the floor, too.

I totally LOL'ed at this, Dawn. Your kids are awesome and they look so much like you. <3 Thanks for the awesome lesson on how to hang a coat... Now... if only hubby would figure it out, too... *giggles*

I'm only kidding. Honest.. He gets it hanging about 50% of the time.. *bats eyes*... :P

I noticed in this video that you changed your Ektorp sofa slipcovers from beige to navy blue. This is the exact same change we made earlier this year when we realized beige+small children is a really bad idea. Although navy blue shows milk stains a lot more easily.

Dawn, get one of those gizmos that hangs from the metal bar in your closet and provide another, lower bar for the little kids to hang their coats on. Then get ready to nag,nag,nag,nag about using it! My teens graduated from the little bar, but still think they can just "hang their coats" on the railing banisters... Oh well better than the floor!

Um Dawn....you asked the kids the wrong question. You asked them if they could hang their coats up.....you didn't ask them if they WOULD hang their coats up. Sure they CAN do it, but will they? Tee hee!!!

Hilarious! I thought your oldest boy had that wonderful look of teen boredom. My brother had that look for 5 years. Age 13 to 18. And no, his face did not freeze that way, so when my ten year old gets that look I cannot threaten that! Ha ha! Thanks for the laugh!

I love Clayton's laugh oh my gosh that is the cutest!!! So how well did the lesson take? We had hooks my kids did use them but they got older and didn't want to use it anymore so now, it's coats on the stairs on the floor oh it's a nice mess will have to show them the video!

So please, please tell me how I get my husband to hang his coat on something other than a dining room chair. Then he'll decide to wear a different one, leaving the first on the dining chair. When he comes in the house with the second one, he hangs it on a different dining room chair.

Oh, yeah...my daughter does this, too, but she has her own house to do it in now.